The National Climatic Data Center (of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the climate and historical weather data for the United States. A variety of data sets are available.

This PowerSearch subcollection searches magazines, journals and encyclopedias relating to science, technology and math. (PowerSearch sets a cookie to limit the resources to this subject. If you use more than one Gale subcollection in a short period of time, you'll need to clear your cookies.)

Many popular topics and even more obscure ones are researched by the agency and summarized for the public. Scan the A-Z index for a more complete list of topics, but popular ones include air, water, bed bugs, chemicals and toxins, greener living, and health.

Make: Projects is way to share projects online for creating, hacking, and learning new skills. Make: Projects started with projects from MAKE magazine (find current issues at Lawson McGhee Library), but expands through member sharing.

An online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major collections from museums, archives, libraries, and research units, with over 1.3 million images, videos, audio files, podcasts, blog posts and electronic journals.